Combined sewing



(No Model.)

G. 0.1BRAG-ER.

COMBINED SEWING MACHINE GOVEE AND EIOOL. No. 358,648.

Patented Mar. 1, 1,887.

l INVENTOE "I MQW BY ATTORNEYS.

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UNITED Srarns .PATENT raies.

GUUL oLsnN BRAGER, or beken, Iowa.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 358,643. dated March 1l 1837- Applicntion illcd July 8, i886. Serial No. 207,459. (No model.)

Yo aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUUL OLsEN BRAGER, of Osage, in the county of Mitchell and State of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Combined Sewing-Machine Cover and Stool, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to sewingmachine covers, and has for its object to provide for holding thecover when it is removed from the head or table of the sewing-machine and at the same time make a stool which may be used as a seat or for holding work being made upon the sewing-machine.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts of the sewing-machine cover and stool, all as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure lis a longitudinal vertical sectional elevation of my improvement adjusted as a cover to a sewing-machine, which is shown only in part. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical sectional elevation showing the improvement adjusted as astoolfand Fig. 3 is la bottom view of the improvement as adjusted for a sewinginachine cover and with the leg-frame partly broken away.

The invention comprises a box, A, open at one side or the bottom, like the ordinary sewing-machine cover,and a leg-frame, B, fitted to the box A and adapted to be reversed in position whenthe improvement is to be used as a cover or stool, as hereinafter more fully explained.

At the inner portion of the bottom edges of the end parts ofthe box or coverAthere is formed a rabhet or recess, C,which, preferably, is extended at c c at the sides of the case. Ihese recesses C Gare the same depth or a little deeper than the width of projecting strips or cleats D D, fixed to the opposite ends of the leg-frame B, and short side cleats, d Z,are fixed to the leg-frame and extend along the frame from the ends of the main or end cleats, D D. These leg-frame cleats D D d cl fit within the rabbets C C c c of the box or cover A when the leg-frame is slipped into the box A with its legs b uppermost, as in Fig. 1, and also when the leg-frame is fitted to the box, or rather when the box A is set upon the frame B with its legs downward, as in Fig. 2.

Spring-pressed pins E E,1tted in opposite ends of the box A, are adapted to enter holes made in the ends of the leg-frame D, to hold or lock the leg-frame to the box,whether the parts AB be adjusted as in Fig. l or as in Fig.v 2, and the lock-pins may easily be withdrawn from the leg-frame to allow the frame to be adj usted either way, as desired.

It is obvious that when the leg-frame B is set Y legs foremost in the box A, the box and legframe may be set together on the sewing-machine table F, so as to cover the head portion G of the machine in the usual way and as shown in Fig. l, and when the frame B is stood on its legs b the box or cover A may be set on top of the frame, and the top of the box will be supported at convenient height to serve as a stool by the entrance of the frame-cleats D d into the rabbet C c of the box, as clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

The box or cover A need be no higher and very little or no wider and longer to accommodate the leg-frame B than Without said frame, and the cover may be made of any required dimensions to t on sewing-machines of any size, and the cover with the inserted leg-frame will be stronger than without it. Furthermore, the convenience of the combined cover and stool is obvious, as the ,leg-frame may be almost instantly adjusted beneath the box A, to hold the box off the floor, and also make a seat ora small table or support to hold pieces of work being made up,and by providing aspecial support for the cover A in the leg-frame B the cover will not be laid aside anywhere on chairs or other furniture or on the iioor, and consequently there will be less danger of damaging the cover or the furniture, and the legframe support for the cover is always at hand, ready for use when required.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A combined sewing-machine cover and stool comprising a cover adapted to inclose the IOO 21. esame head of a sewing-machineiand a leg frame or support fitted to the cover and adapted to support the cover as a stool, substantially as described, for the purposes set forth.

5 2. A combined sewing-machine cover and stool comprising a cover adapted to inclose the head of aseWing-'machine and a leg-frame f1tted Within the cover and adapted to support the cover as a stool, substantially as described,

1 0 for the purposes set forth.

3. A combined sewing-machine cover and stool comprising a cover adapted to inclose the head of a sewing-machine and a leg-frame fitted to the cover and adapted, when reversed in 15 position, to support the cover as a stool, substantially as shown and described.

4. A combined sewing-machine cover and stool comprising a cover adapted to inclose the head of a sewing-machine and a leg-frame t- 2o ted within the cover, and the cover and legfraine provided, respectively, with rabbets and cleats, substantially as shown and described, Whereb1 the leg-frame may be reversed in position, so as to lie Within the cover when the cover is adjusted to the sewing-machine and 25 so as to support the cover on top of it for use as a stool, the leg-frame cleats entering the cover-rabbets in either relative adjustment of the frame and cover, as set forth.

5. A combined sewing-machine cover and 3o stool comprising a cover, A, provided with rabbets C, a leg-frame, B, fitted Within the cover A and having cleats D, entering rabbets C, and locking devices, as at E, holding the cover and leg-frame to each other, substantially as 35 shown and described.

GUUL OLSEN BRAGER. Witnesses:

W. L. EATON, H. C. LIBBY. 

